Steven Spielberg Quotes

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

I make movies based on gut.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

I choose films based on gut instinct.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

Films choose me; I don't choose them.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.